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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

The assassinations of the 1960s A recently discovered sound recording of the assassination of Robert Kennedy shows that there was indeed a second shooter in the room. At least 13 shots were fired according to the analysis by Philip Van Praag, an expert in the ‘forensic analysis of magnetic media recordings’. Sirhan Sirhan’s gun could … Read more

Princess Diana: the Hidden Evidence

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] motives behind the crash, but admitted that some ‘abnormal driving’ had taken place that night), a paramedic supervisor, and a US Special Forces veteran and CIA contract agent. The latter, not surprisingly, requested anonymity and is referred to throughout the book as ‘Stealth’ The meetings with him took place, rather melodramatically, at the Avebury […]

Behind right-wing conspiracy theories

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] can be judged from John Buchan’s famous novel The Thirty Nine Steps, published in 1920. In the first chapter, set in early 1914, Colonel Scudder, the secret agent, explains that behind every major company in Europe is “a Jew in a wheelchair with eyes like a rattlesnake”, and that the cause of the coming […]

Some Notes on Occult Irrationalism and the Kennedy Assassination

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

[…] one finds a review of a pro-Warren Commission book, The Scavengers: Critics and the Warren Report, by Richard Warren Lewis and Lawrence Schiller. The reviewer, former FBI agent and Ramparts contributor, William Turner, is particularly annoyed (p. 163) over the way Lewis and Schiller take a cheap shot at Sylvia Meagher by pointing out […]

Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British anti-semitism 1939/1940

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] all the private material between Roosevelt and Churchill 1939/1940. Originally thought to be a Nazi spy, after 1945 the CIA considered him to have been a Soviet agent all along (not a contradiction during the Nazi-Soviet Pact). Aarons and Loftus (op. cit.) also say, p. 212, that, contemporaneously with this, whilst attached to a […]

The Last Investigation, and, Deep Politics

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

The Last Investigation Gaeton Fonzi Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, 1993 Deep Politics and the Death of JFK Peter Dale Scott University of California Press London and Berkeley, 1993 With Dick Russell’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, reviewed above by Alex Cox, these books are the best of the post Oliver Stone wave that … Read more

JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] New Orleans when ordering Fair Play for Cuba literature. And there are other intriguing connections and coincidences.Eddowes thought that Osborne was either a freelance or Soviet intelligence agent, The Oswald File, op cit, p. 65. I’m not sure what freelance means in this context, but for the Soviets? No. Osborne was pro-Nazi during the […]

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

The Diana inquest – the people’s verdict? Well we now know who didn’t do it. It wasn’t the Royals. Not that they and their associates don’t have past form when it comes to helping family members into the next world. George V was given a fatal injection on his deathbed in order that news of … Read more

More views from the bridge

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

Crime fighting? There must many candidates for the title ‘The most damaging thing I have read about this government’. My current candidate is a piece by Simon Jenkins, ‘A Keep Police off the Streets Strategy Unit’ (The Times 2 February 2002). After reminding the reader that in the UK the police are a local service, … Read more

Miscellaneous: James Angleton. British democracy. Nazis

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] papers kept in locked metal boxes. Not so, writes David Northmore, referring us to the piece in the Independent (20 August ’88). From being a local election agent, I know that Winter’s account of the votes being put into bundles by party is true. But at the vote counting the ballot papers were put […]

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